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Pike County Community Resources
Resident in Pike County, Illinois and surrounding communities can find several resources, support groups and organizations right in their hometowns. Click through any of the items below to find more information about these various groups.
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Blessing service earns 5-star rating
Blessing Hospital’s Skilled Nursing Unit (SNU) earned an overall five-star rating for the recent survey period of the nation’s nursing homes from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The survey is conducted four times each year. Blessing’s SNU has earned an overall five-star rating in each of the past four survey periods.
Blessing kidney specialists seeing patients in Macomb
Theseswi Pujar, MD, MBA, FACP, and Taylor Welch, APR-AGACNP, Blessing Hospital Nephrology department, are seeing patients monthly at the Macomb Clinic, 437 E. Grant Street.
Nurses play key role in operating new life-support system
National statistics from the height of the COVID-19 pandemic showed that 50%-60% of patients placed on the life-support system known as ECMO, short for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, survived at least 90 days.
Donor Stories - Lisa and Steve Surratt
I’m a registered organ donor because as a ICU nurse, I have seen the need for organs especially kidneys. My mom was a dialysis patient for a number of years so I also have seen the need from a personal side.I believe when I die, if someone can…
“Solution-focused mindset” earns employee an ICARE award
Job skills can be taught. Consistency, initiative, and heart for service – not so much – and those are the qualities that earned Melanie Garner the ICARE Award for Excellence.
A sister’s advice leads to shocking discovery
It’s probably pneumonia. Maybe it’s COVID? Those were the thoughts running through the mind of 28-year old Patrick Smith as he drove through a dark winter’s night from his home in Hannibal to the Blessing Hospital Emergency Center.
Keeping this story alive can save others
After years of sophisticated medical care, including surgeries at a children’s hospital associated with Stanford University in southern California, Madilynn’s doctor came to the decision that she needed a heart-lung transplant to live. For a number of reasons, she was not a candidate.
Volunteer sees the beauty in every cancer patient she meets
Poet Maya Angelou said, “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” That’s the story of Bonnie Hallerberg’s life. Whether in the kitchen creating meals for family and friends, designing artificial floral cemetery arrangements for those who have experienced loss, or changing the lives of Blessing Cancer Center patients - in her 70s, Bonnie is as talented and productive as ever.